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A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers
Bowel sounds contain some important human physiological parameters which can reflect information about intestinal function. In this work, in order to realize real-time monitoring of bowel sounds, a portable and wearable bowel sound electronic monitor based on piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9787765/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36557520 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13122221 |
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author | Ding, Xiaoxia Wu, Zhipeng Gao, Mingze Chen, Minkan Li, Jiawei Wu, Tao Lou, Liang |
author_facet | Ding, Xiaoxia Wu, Zhipeng Gao, Mingze Chen, Minkan Li, Jiawei Wu, Tao Lou, Liang |
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description | Bowel sounds contain some important human physiological parameters which can reflect information about intestinal function. In this work, in order to realize real-time monitoring of bowel sounds, a portable and wearable bowel sound electronic monitor based on piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) is proposed. This prototype consists of a sensing module to collect bowel sounds and a GUI (graphical user interface) based on LabVIEW to display real-time bowel sound signals. The sensing module is composed of four PMUTs connected in parallel and a signal conditioning circuit. The sensitivity, noise resolution, and non-linearity of the bowel sound monitor are measured in this work. The result indicates that the designed prototype has high sensitivity (−142.69 dB), high noise resolution (50 dB at 100 Hz), and small non-linearity. To demonstrate the characteristic of the designed electronic monitor, continuous bowel sound monitoring is performed using the electronic monitor and a stethoscope on a healthy human before and after a meal. Through comparing the experimental results and analyzing the signals in the time domain and frequency domain, this bowel sound monitor is demonstrated to record bowel sounds from the human intestine. This work displays the potential of the sensor for the daily monitoring of bowel sounds. |
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spelling | pubmed-97877652022-12-24 A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Ding, Xiaoxia Wu, Zhipeng Gao, Mingze Chen, Minkan Li, Jiawei Wu, Tao Lou, Liang Micromachines (Basel) Communication Bowel sounds contain some important human physiological parameters which can reflect information about intestinal function. In this work, in order to realize real-time monitoring of bowel sounds, a portable and wearable bowel sound electronic monitor based on piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUTs) is proposed. This prototype consists of a sensing module to collect bowel sounds and a GUI (graphical user interface) based on LabVIEW to display real-time bowel sound signals. The sensing module is composed of four PMUTs connected in parallel and a signal conditioning circuit. The sensitivity, noise resolution, and non-linearity of the bowel sound monitor are measured in this work. The result indicates that the designed prototype has high sensitivity (−142.69 dB), high noise resolution (50 dB at 100 Hz), and small non-linearity. To demonstrate the characteristic of the designed electronic monitor, continuous bowel sound monitoring is performed using the electronic monitor and a stethoscope on a healthy human before and after a meal. Through comparing the experimental results and analyzing the signals in the time domain and frequency domain, this bowel sound monitor is demonstrated to record bowel sounds from the human intestine. This work displays the potential of the sensor for the daily monitoring of bowel sounds. MDPI 2022-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9787765/ /pubmed/36557520 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13122221 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Ding, Xiaoxia Wu, Zhipeng Gao, Mingze Chen, Minkan Li, Jiawei Wu, Tao Lou, Liang A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
title | A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
title_full | A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
title_fullStr | A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
title_full_unstemmed | A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
title_short | A High-Sensitivity Bowel Sound Electronic Monitor Based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
title_sort | high-sensitivity bowel sound electronic monitor based on piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9787765/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36557520 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13122221 |
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